Trade Skill Quotes

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

A trade is better then service.

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.